We need healing. In a society that values self-reliance that can be a hard thing to admit, but it is true.   We need it in our lives.   This world and all its stuff is constantly damaging us. It damages us physically as they are filling our food with unpronounceable chemicals packaged in containers that poison our bodies. This world damages us emotionally as the father of lies, speaks his native tongue in every area life. Our hearts are broken and wounded from the lies lived out and we are impacted. We need healing in our relationships that are produced in the crucible of our emotional brokenness. Actions taken in the heat of a moment or the anger of a circumstance, stuffed down, ignored, covered up, but ultimately damaging us.

 Where will we seek this healing? We most often look to ourselves. We think that we can pull ourselves up by our own boot straps. As we move from extreme to extreme in cutting out this or that in our diet, only to find out that what we replaced it with was worse.   Marketeers at their best and nutritionist left to catch up on the latest craze. We think that if we only convince ourselves, we can have good self esteem, which will certainly cure the world of all that ails it. The problems in our relationships come from old fashioned gender norms and outdated social structures. If we just get rid of all of those then the world can be what the Beatles imagined it could be. How’s that working out?

The real answer of course lies outside of our self. The healing we need can only come from the Holy Spirit. It is the Holy Spirit who gives the gift of healing. Not so we can create a TV empire, but for the common good. Will we trust His healing? Will we ask for it? Will we believe it is possible and even learn to rely on it?

 Holy Spirit rain down!

See you at church,

Pastor Chris